Bocourtia pyramidalis (Breure,1978)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bocourtia pyramidalis (Breure, 1978)

Tamanho médio: 45 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Pasco)

Localidade tipo: Peru, “Dept. Pasco, 4.7 km S Huariaca, 3000 m (F. G. Thompson leg., 23.iii.1969)”

Altitude: 3000 m

Nome original: Scutalus (Vermiculatus) pyramidalis Breure, 1978

Sinônimos: Scutalus pyramidalis Breure, 1978

Etimologia: o nome da espécie Bocourtia pyramidalis deriva da palavra em Latim “pyramidis“, ou pirâmide, em uma referência ao formato da concha

Descrição original:

(Breure, 1978): “Shell up to 45.5 mm, 2.53 times as long as wide, narrowly perforate to rimate, with straight sides, elongate, acute, rather solid. Colour yellowish, paler on the upper whorls, with irregular pale brown axial streaks. Surface hardly shining, the growth striae incrassate. Protoconch with axial wrinkles, more or less anastomosing on lower part of whorl and forming a reticulate pattern.

Whorls 6.9, flat, the last whorl slightly inflated; suture hardly impressed. Aperture subovate to inversed ear-shaped, 1.79 times as long as wide, 0.45 times the total length, whitish coloured inside. Peristome thin and simple, slightly sinuous. Columellar margin reflexed, broadly dilated above; bluish. Columella with a fold inside the aperture. Parietal region with a thin, transparent callus.“

Fotos: (1) Breure, 1978: Bocourtia pyramidalis, Florida State Museum, Gainesville, EUA, HOLOTYPE UF 22754, 43.5mm

Figura: Breure, 1978:  (16-17) Scutalus (Vermiculatus) pyramidalis, HOLOTYPE UF, Peru, Pasco, 4.7 km S Huariaca, 43.5 mm; (18-19) Scutalus (Vermiculatus) pyramidalis PARATYPE UF, Peru, Pasco, 4.7 km S Huariaca; 45.5mm; (20) Scutalus (Vermiculatus) peakei, HOLOTYPE UF, Peru, Ancash, 20 km W Huaraz, 28.0 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Scutalus (Vermiculatus) peakei Breure, 1978) Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 164(1): 3-255.
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MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1453931